"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretence of taking care of them."

"The most successful war seldom pays for its losses."

"I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend."

"The mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God."

"It is an axiom in my mind that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that too of the whole people."